摘要:
作为美国最重要、最有影响力的现代主义和当代诗歌批评家之一,玛乔丽·帕洛夫教授撰写了14本学术著作,其中最近出版的是《反讽的边缘:哈布斯堡帝国阴影下的现代主义》(2016),和近400篇论文。我非常荣幸地在2019年的CAAP会议上遇到了帕洛夫教授,当时她作了题目为《向后阅读诗歌:埃兹拉庞德《诗章》中的视觉和声音设计》的大会主旨发言。这次采访主要围绕诗歌的声音及其在诗歌中如何传达意义的重要性。从庞德在《诗章》中使用无声的中国表意汉字谈起,帕洛夫教授谈到了她对各种主题的独特理解,从声音诗、谐音翻译、乌力波到语言诗、概念诗和当代最新趋势美国诗歌。她认为,庞德使用中国的表意文字会使《诗章》中的意思丰富并增值,因为“一个表意文字可以传达正常书写中许多单词所能表达的内容”。作为长期研究语言诗歌的重要评论家,帕洛夫教授展示了她对语言诗歌与其后继者概念诗歌之间关系的深刻理解。她对数字化和多媒体时代的诗歌未来表达了自己的信心。同时,她还提供了对声诗的定义,举例说明了声音模式如何创造意义,并阐明了乌力波这一重要的诗歌运动。在采访的最后,帕洛夫教授回顾了她70年的诗歌评论家的经历,并谈到了在历史和文化背景下理解当代诗歌的重要性。
Abstract:
As one of the foremost and most influential American critics of modernist and contemporary poetry,Professor Marjorie Perloff is the author of seventeen monographs-the most recent of which is Edge of Irony:Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire,published in 2016-and nearly four hundred essays.I was very honored to meet Professor Perloff during the CAAP conference in 2019,when she gave a keynote speech entitled "Reading the Verse Backward:Visual and Sound Design in Ezra Pound's Cantos." This interview mostly centers around the sound of poetry and its significance in conveying meanings in poetry.Beginning with a discussion of Pound's silent Chinese ideograms in The Cantos,Professor Perloff elucidates her unique understandings on a variety of topics,ranging from sound poetry,homophonic translation,and Oulipo,to language poetry,conceptual poetry,and the latest trends of contemporary American poetry.She argues that Pound uses Chinese ideograms to thicken and multiply the meanings in The Cantos.As a prominent critic who has long studied language poetry,Professor Perloff presents her profound understanding of the relationship between language poetry and its successor,conceptual poetry.She expresses her faith in the future of poetry in the era of digitalization and multimedia.She also provides her definition of sound poetry,exemplifies how sound patterns can create meanings,and discusses the significance of the Oulipo movement.At the end of this interview,Professor Perloff recalls her seventy-year career as a poetry critic and affirms the importance of understanding contemporary poetry in the context of history and culture.